Transformasie/transmutasie in Fransi Phillips se sewe & sewentig stories oor 'n clown

Abstract

Initially a difficult text, the 77 stories opens up under a deconstructivist scrutiny. This Post­-Modernist text is an exemplar of absences: nothing is stable or constant, not even the clown. Due to the self-reference of the recit, anything, or anybody can change into any other element or entity while all things are equally big/small: there is no unity or centre, thus the lack of "presence". Hierarchical oppositions contradict each other and there is no "coherent logic": "death" entails the continuation of "life"  and "born x unborn" leads a parallel existence in the text.
Through the "signature" in the text and by means of "invagination" the "parergon" becomes part of the "ergon" which admirably demonstrates "grafts" and "dissemination". Everything in the text exists solely in the sense of transition and change, equality and transferability; thus of transformation and transmutation.

Opsomming
Hierdie Postmodernistiese stories is gevul met "afwesighede"; niks is vaste gegewe en konstant nie, nie eens 'n clown nie. Deur die selfverwysing van die recit kan enige iets of iemand in enige ander element of entiteit verander terwyl alle dinge ewe groot/klein is; daar is geen eenheid of kern nie, sodat "teenwoordigheid" ontbreek. Hierargiese opposisies weerle mekaar en "koherente logika" ontbreek; "dood" beteken die voortsetting van "lewe" en "gebore x ongebore" voer 'n parallelle bestaan in die teks.
Weens die "sinjatuur" in die teks en d.m.v. "invaginering" word die "parergon" deel van die "ergon" wat 'n bewonderenswaardige voorbeeld van "oorenting" en "disseminasie" is. Alles in die teks staan in die teken van oorgang en verandering, gelykheid en verplaas­baarheid, en spreek van transformasie en transmutasie wat slegs d.m.v. Dekonstruksie duidelik belig kan word.